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The Child’s Psychological Use
of the Parent: A Workshop
James Tobin, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist, PSY 22074
220 Newport Center Drive, Suite 1
Newport Beach, CA 92660
949-338-4388
www.jamestobinphd.com
Outline for Today’s Workshop
• Part I: Transcript of Samantha and Her Parents
• Part II: Parenting in a “Perfect Storm”
• Part III: The Universal Dilemma of Human
Development
Lunch Break
• Part IV: Optimal Parental Functions
• Part V: Introduction to the Coding Manual
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Part I:Transcript of Samantha
and Her Parents in Therapy
3
Part II: Parenting in a Perfect Storm
4
Brain development continues into the
mid-30s
During adolescence, the child’s brain is unevenly
developed and is not necessarily capable of
the tasks parents believe should be occurring
(planning, cause-effect analysis, learning,
regret).
5
Brain development continues into the
mid-30s
Parents’ “construction” of their child often does
not take into account gaps in the child’s brain
development (leading to “attribution error”).
6
The rise of inadequately-assessed
risk-taking behavior
7
Daniel Romer’s compelling article:
“Adolescent Risk Taking, Impulsivity, and Brain
Development: Implications for Prevention,”
2010, Developmental Psychobiology, 52, 263-
276.
8
Risk-taking
... researchers from different disciplines have proposed
two-processes of brain maturation that predispose the
adolescent to risk taking and impulsivity. One process
that emerges early in adolescence is driven by
frontostriatal reward circuits involving the ventral
striatum (e.g., the nucleus accumbens) (Casey, Getz, &
Galvay, 2008; Chambers, Taylor, & Potenza, 2003;Galvan,
Hare, Parra, Penn, Voss, Glover, et al., 2006). These
circuits mature relatively early (Fuster, 2002) and
encourage the adolescent to venture away from the
family and toward increasingly novel and adult-like
activities (Spear, 2007). Not surprisingly, many of these
activities are fraught with a certain amount of risk (e.g.,
driving, sex).
9
Risk-taking
At the same time that the adolescent is engaging in
novel and risky activities, it is argued that the PFC has
not yet matured to the point where risks can be
adequately assessed and control over risk taking can be
sufficiently exerted to avoid unhealthy outcomes. In
particular, the PFC and its connections with other brain
regions are thought to be structurally inadequate to
provide the control that is optimal for adolescent
behavior. This maturational gap in development of PFC-
based control relative to more advanced motivational
circuitry is said to result in an inevitable period of risk for
adolescents (Casey et al., 2008; Nelson, Bloom, Cameron,
Amaral, Dahl, & Pine, 2002; Steinberg, 2008).
Furthermore, it is suggested that interventions to reduce
this period of vulnerability will inevitably have very
limited effectiveness (see Steinberg, this issue). 10
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The impact of social media
12
The CNN Special Report
“Being13: Inside the Secret World of Teens”
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Being13: Inside the Secret World of
Teens
• Approximately 200 eighth graders at eight different
schools in six states across the country allowed their
social media feeds to be studied by child development
experts who partnered with CNN.
• This is the first large scale study to analyze what kids
actually say to each other on social media and why it
matters so deeply to them.
• 150,000 social media posts were collected over a six-
month period.
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• The main finding:
Teens are generally very anxious and hyper-
aware of what's occurring online; this is
largely due to a need to monitor their own
popularity status, and to defend themselves
against those who challenge it.
15
Being13: Inside the Secret World of
Teens
Being13: Inside the Secret World of
Teens
• 61% of teens said they wanted to see if their
online posts are getting likes and comments.
• 36% of teens said they wanted to see if their
friends are doing things without them.
• 21% of teens said they wanted to make sure
no one was saying mean things about them.
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"This is an age group that has a lot of anxiety
about how they fit in, what they rank, what
their peer-status is. There is fear in putting
yourself out there on social media and they
hope for lots of likes and comments and
affirmations but there is always the chance
that someone could say something mean,” a
researcher stated.
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Being13: Inside the Secret World of
Teens
The sexualization of children
18
Fred Kaeser: “The Super-Sexualization of
Children: Time to Take Notice” (Psychology
Today Blog Post, September 23, 2011)
19
Fred Kaeser
If you think about it the average child in the
United States today has countless
opportunities for exposure to sexualized
messages every day. Television, music,
billboards, print media, Internet, cellphones
and communication devices, cable, movies,
and of course interaction with peers and
adults, offer children numerous possibilities
where they can encounter sexual messages of
all sorts.
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Fred Kaeser
In some homes kids are only a click away from
seeing sexual intercourse in all its possible
permutations, everything from your run-of-
the-mill sexual intercourse to some pretty
weird and disturbing sexual acts. Others still
are being exposed to actual sexual behavior in
their daily lives that gets played out by the
adults and older siblings around them.
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Fred Kaeser
Irrespective of a child's particular situation,
you can bet that children are being exposed to
numerous sexual messages every day of their
lives. In fact, by the time a child reaches
puberty, she or he has likely been exposed to
thousands if not tens of thousands of
sexualized messages. Think about that for a
moment--constant exposure to sexualized
messages, day in and day out, at lightning
speed from nearly every direction, for their
entire childhood.
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Fred Kaeser
We are creating a generation of super-sexualized
children. A significant number of children are
actually demonstrating sexual interest and/or
sexual behavior at earlier ages than ever before in
our society. Kids are being exposed to sexual
matters that were previously only in the purview of
adults and the greater the exposure the greater
the consequences can be. When parents fail to
counter and buffer the plethora of sexual stimuli
that confront children, they are left to their own
devices to manage what they experience.
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Fred Kaeser
Unfortunately, many will be confused and
have difficulty making sense of and putting
into proper perspective what they are exposed
to. Some will actually try to act out or mimic
what they have been exposed to. Others, who
may be developing a bullying persona, will
begin to incorporate sexual behavior into their
bullying behavior and engage in hurtful or
intrusive sexual behavior towards other
children.
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Fred Kaeser
Frankly, I am alarmed over the number of five, six,
seven, and eight year old children that molest
other children (I have NEVER received so many
phone calls from school staff about this problem
as I have the past ten to fifteen years). The
biggest impact however that the super-
sexualization of children can have is its overall
looming effect on the day-to-day existence of
kids. Sexuality becomes much more of a player
than it should, irrespective of the child's age.
25
"So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualization of
Childhood and What Parents Can Do to
Protect Their Kids“ by Diane E. Levin and Jean
Kilbourne
26
The rise of pornography viewing by
teenagers
• Pornography viewing by teens disorients their
views of romance and sexuality.
• A significant relationship exists among teens
between frequent pornography use and
feelings of loneliness, and between
pornography use and major depression.
27
The Millennial Generation
Millennials (also known as Generation Y) are
the demographic cohort following Generation
X.
Most researchers and commentators use birth
years ranging from the early 1980s to the
early 2000s to designate Generation Y.
28
The Peter Pan Generation
American sociologist Kathleen
Shaputis labeled Millennials
as the Boomerang Generation or Peter Pan
Generation: rites of passage into adulthood are
delayed for longer periods than most
generations before them.
There is a prominent trend among the Millennials
of living with their parents for longer periods
than previous generations.
29
Research indicates that on a variety of
psychological, emotional and cognitive
variables, children today are less mature than
children of the same age in previous
generations.
30
The developmental timeline of human life is
changing .... with a delayed/prolonged
transition into adulthood
• Before: childhood, adolescence (13 to 19), young
adulthood (20 to 25), adulthood (25 to 64),
retirement/elderly (64+)
• Now: childhood, biological adolescence (13 to 17),
psychological adolescence (18 to 22), emerging
adulthood (23 to 33), young adulthood (34 to
39/40), adulthood (41 to 70), retirement/elderly
(70+)
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In certain cultures, rituals demarcate the
child’s entrance into adulthood (the
transition is unequivocal and final)
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In our culture ...
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The hairline study
34
Are we creating a society of adult-
children?
35
Are we creating a society of adult-
children?
According to Kimberly Palmer, "High housing
prices, the rising cost of higher education, and
the relative affluence of the older generation
are among the factors driving the trend.”
A 2013 joint study by sociologists at the University
of Virginia and Harvard University found that
the likelihood of marriage is actually
diminishing among certain subgroups of
children.
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Resistance toward becoming an adult
or something else?
Larry Nelson, a researcher in a 2012 study at
Brigham Young University study, noted that "In
prior generations, you get married and you
start a career and you do that immediately.
What young people today are seeing is that
this approach has led to divorces, to people
unhappy with their careers … The majority
want to get married […] they just want to do it
right the first time, the same thing with their
careers."
37
The “vampire child” (Failure to
Launch Syndrome)
38
Instead of delaying autonomy, there
are also attempts to propel it way too
quickly
39
The social brain (“Interpersonal
Neurobiology”)
40
The work of Daniel J. Siegel
• The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal
Experience (New York: Guilford Press, 1999)
• Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body and Brain (New York:
WW Norton & Company, 2003). Co-edited with Marion Solomon.
• Forward to Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to
Psychotherapy by Kekuni Minton, Pat Ogden, and Clare Pain (New
York: WW Norton & Company, 2006)
• The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of
Well-Being (New York: WW Norton & Company, 2007)
• The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience,
Development & Clinical Practice (New York: WW Norton &
Company, 2009). Co-edited with Diana Fosha and Marion F.
Solomon.
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The work of Daniel J. Siegel
• The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight
and Neural Integration (New York: WW Norton &
Company, 2010)
• Mindsight: The New Science of Personal
Transformation (New York: Bantam, 2010)
• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to
Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday
Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive (New
York: Delacorte Press, 2011). Co-author with Tina
Payne Bryson.
• The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How
Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We
Are (New York: Guilford Press, 2012).
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The work of Daniel J. Siegel
• Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An
Integrative Handbook of the Mind (New York: W.W.
Norton & Company, 2012)
• Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage
Brain (New York: Penguin Putnam, 2013)
• Parenting From the Inside Out: How A Deeper Self-
Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who
Thrive (New York: Tarcher, 2004). Co-author with Mary
Hartzel.
• No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm
the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing
Mind (New York: Bantam, 2014). Co-author with Tina
Payne Bryson.
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Brain development
44
Brain development
45
The child’s brain development (and
psychological and emotional
maturity) depend on the quality of
relational experience
46
The prefrontal cortex
47
Pruning
48
With heightened pruning (by a lack of quality
relational experience), identity development
and internal motivation will be stalled ... this is
the silent epidemic of child “self-estrangement”
49
Self-estrangement
Exaggerated claims of identity and/or a total
withdrawal from identity (I am an empty shell
of a person; I feel nothing; I want nothing) –
this leads to the habitual need to find an
external way to be stimulated/to feel anything
50
Most American families are steeped in
conflict
51
Given all of these factors, parents
need a life preserver
52
Parenting without a theory of
parenting
There is no roadmap
for how to parent.
Parents often parent the way they were parented or
seek to parent in ways that are opposite of how
they were parented.
Today you will learn a theory of parenting that
focuses on the parent’s need to support the
child’s brain development through quality
relational experience.
53
Part III: The Universal Dilemma of
Human Development
54
A cruel joke played on us by our
“creator”?
55
Union (“Two Becoming One”)
56
In early human life, there are actually
2 “two’s becoming one’s”
57
Separation (“One Becoming Two”)
58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqMdQBox
15s (2:00 min)
59
4 stages of union/separation
• Symbiosis (child aged 0 to 6 months)
• Separation (6 months to 2 years)
• Differentiation (2 years to 6 years)
• Individuation (6+ years)
Every parent-child pair experiences some degree of
difficulty at one or multiple points along this 4-
stage process ... the term “personality” refers to
the psychological defenses a child uses to get
through the challenges of these stages
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Symbiosis (“two becoming one”)
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Symbiosis (“two becoming one”)
• Mother exists for the child
• If all goes well, primary narcissism is laid
down at the foundation of the child’s identity
• The child’s strategy of attachment becomes
habitual
62
It is during Symbiosis that the child’s
psychological separation from the
parent actually begins (i.e., the child
accommodates to the primary
caretaker – this is the first major
defense)
63
In the 6th or 7th month of life,
separation is physically manifested
64
“Going on Being”: the child’s innate
drives of exploration and discovery
65
The child’s “going on being” is
inevitably interrupted (the second
major defense)
66
By age 6, the child’s psychological defenses
(to accommodate and cope with “going on
being” interruptions) split the child’s identity
into 3 components
67
The False Self ..... the compromised,
accommodating part of the
personality
68
The True Self ....the non-compromised
authentic part of the personality
69
The Unknown Self .... the part of the
true self that was not given an
opportunity to develop (“to be”) and
expand.
70
What does this all mean for
the parent and
adolescent? ....
2 main take-aways
71
(#1) The adolescent is disproportionately part-
true, part-false, and part-unknown.
If separation and individuation are promoted
in the family appropriately (not too
slowly/not too quickly), the teen will be more
“true,” less “false,” and more highly invested
in exploring his/her “unknown.”
72
(#2) At any moment in the parent-child
relationship, the parent never knows at what
level of union/separation the child is at nor vice
versa ...
• Symbiosis (child aged 0 to 6 months)
• Separation (6 months to 2 years)
• Differentiation (2 years to 6 years)
• Individuation (6+ years)
** THIS IS THE ISSUE OF MISATTUNEMENT**
73
Most romantic relationship difficulties in
adulthood are nothing more than an attempt
to relive unresolved relational conflicts with
one’s parents (MISATTUNEMENTS), at
whatever level of union/separation they
occurred, with one’s partner, and finally, to no
longer accommodate!
74
All adult romantic relationships are pre-
determined
75
All adult romantic relationships are
pre-determined
You don’t marry your mother or father; rather,
you recruit a person to unwittingly become an
actor in the play you direct in which:
(1) your partner is cast as your parent
who constricts you and misattunes to you,
and ...
(2) you are your former child self who can
finally subvert the parent in order to “be.”
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Part IV: Optimal Parental Functions
78
Separation (“One Becoming Two”)
79
There is great ambivalence about the
child’s identity development and
imminent separation and autonomy
This is universally resisted, consciously and/or
unconsciously, by both parent and child, in all
families!
I
80
Parents often do not realize the
intensity of their child’s ambivalence
about growing up
81
At any moment ...
• Symbiosis (child aged 0 to 6 months)
• Separation (6 months to 2 years)
• Differentiation (2 years to 6 years)
• Individuation (6+ years)
82
Example of the child’s resistance to
“becoming a two”
83
Example of the parent’s resistance to
“becoming a two”
84
As childhood transitions into adolescence,
self-recognition intensifies
• Who I am or might be = separation/aloneness
85
The false, true, and unknown selves
collide, overlap and conflict
86
Self-recognition
“If I look at myself and my feelings closely,
and begin to recognize who I am, I will
realize I am ... different, strange, unique,
unlikable, fat, ugly, weird, etc. etc. ......
AND .... I will be alone (others won’t like
me/I won’t like me) ... AND ... I will die.”
87
At the same time, every parent has
difficulty tolerating who his/her child
is becoming
88
The one way out of all these
problems?
All of these tensions put the teen and the parent in a
state of internal difficulty/crisis that cannot be
tolerated.
There is an old adage: “All the important arguments
are with yourself.”
Humans usually do not abide by this: instead, they
create drama with others to distract from their
own internal dramas.*******
89
In which scene are the child’s emotional
capacities being developed?
A B
90
Scene A ... this is a TRANSACTION and it
capitalizes on the close ties (union) between
parent and child to delay the child’s brain
development (PFC) and emotional autonomy
91
Scene B ... this is WITNESSING and it
promotes the child’s interiority
92
Interiority
An interior space in your child’s mind, an
organized structure for thinking, feeling, and
relating to self and others. This space is
created solely through well-boundaried
interpersonal relatedness.
93
The child’s brain development (and
psychological and emotional
maturity) depend on quality
relational experience
94
Scaffolding
Your parental function is to scaffold your child’s
current union/separation stage so that it
moves slightly toward the next level and does
not regress back to previous levels.
95
96
There are 10 types of transactions: these are
the family system’s best (unconscious)
method for hindering the child’s developing
autonomy.
97
Optimal Parental Functions
A. With your child
B. With yourself
C. With your partner
98
A. Optimal Parental
Functions with Your
Child
99
Your first and most important task: avoid
transactions (the ones either you or your
child attempt)
100
1. Induction
101
2. Helicoptering
102
3. Projection
103
4. Enmeshment
104
5. Enabling
105
6. “The Narcissistic Umbilical Cord”
106
7. The False Self
107
8. Self-sabotage and the “identified
patient”
108
9. Counter-identification
109
10. Conflict Avoidance/Withdrawal
110
Summary
• These 10 unconscious transactional patterns
in families capitalize on the primal bond
between parent and child (the long history of
“two becoming one”) to resist what needs to
occur (“one becoming two”).
• These unconscious transactions are
interpersonal boundary violations.
111
There is a large catalogue of unconscious
transactions in families (that violate
interpersonal boundaries and resist “one
becoming two”)
These transactions are reinforced by
misattunements
Identifying the characteristic transactions
and misattunements of your specific family
dynamics should be a major focus of
family therapy and parent guidance work
112
Interpersonal boundary violations
Interpersonal boundary violations between
parent and child leave the child with poor
internal boundaries: “I can’t say ‘No!’ to
myself .... my thoughts, desires, cravings,
tendencies, impulses, etc.”
113
“The addictive sentiment”
This is the “addictive sentiment,” setting the stage
for all future dependencies including substance
and process addictions as well as
emotional/romantic co-dependence and love
addiction.
Relational boundary diffusion and internal
boundary diffusion usually co-exist, feeding off of
each other and making it almost impossible to be
a boundaried person – with self or with others!
This translates into a proneness for transactions
not witnessing.
114
For the parent, witnessing, not
transacting, promotes the child’s capacity
to be alone and his/her growth and
autonomy
115
“The capacity to be alone”
“I wish to make an examination of the capacity
of the individual to be alone, acting on the
assumption that this capacity is one of the
most important signs of maturing in
emotional development ... It would seem to
me that a discussion of the positive aspects
of the capacity to be alone is overdue” (D.W.
Winnicott, 1958).
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Witnessing as “Relational Dialysis”
117
Witnessing as Relational Dialysis
You accept and absorb your child’s “toxic” states
and refine them by having these states:
(1) go “into” you (listen, inquire, contain), and
(2) return them back to your child in a more
palatable/purified form (your child’s
experience is not judged nor devalued, but
emphatically validated and contextualized).
118
Getting hydrocarbons from crude oil
119
Transacting vs. Witnessing
In transacting, material from
the child binds to the parent
(causing an interpersonal struggle)
In witnessing/relational dialysis,
material from the child passes
through the parent and returns
to the child in an altered form
for further examination
(causing an intrapersonal struggle) 120
Relational dialysis is not only a
communication strategy, but an attitudinal
presence that implies a meta-message to the
child:
(1) “I am separate from you”
(2) “You are struggling due to your natural,
‘normal’ and understandable resistances to
maturity, independence/autonomy, and
aloneness”
(3) “If I transact with you, I will hurt you by
inhibiting your emotional development ... so I
will witness instead” 121
The punch line
As a parent, you want to avoid transactions
with your child and attempt to correct
misattunements ...
.... so that you can relate to your child as a
separate being in the role of witness
122
B. Optimal Parental
Functions with
Yourself
123
Are you under- or over-invested in
your child’s emerging identity?
124
Are you identified with or counter-
identified with your own parents in
how you parent?
125
Are you overly-identified with your
child?
• Are you activated more by what you see in your
child that reminds you of you? ... These regions
of similarity tend to be responsible for most of a
parent’s parenting activity
• Are you activated more by what you see in your
child that is foreign to you/does not remind you
of you? ... These regions of dissimilarity are
what parents usually need to devote more of
their attention to
126
Are you a person (not a parent) who
can be idealized by your child?
127
“Triumphs of Experience” by George
Valliant (Amazon)
• In 1938, Harvard University began following
268 male undergraduate students and kicked
off the longest-running longitudinal study of
human development in history.
• The study’s goal was to determine as best as
possible what factors contribute most strongly
to human flourishing.
128
“Triumph of Experience”
• Vaillant raises a number of factors more often
than others, but the one he refers to most
often is the powerful correlation between the
warmth of a man’s relationships and his
health and happiness in later years.
129
Are you a “charismatic” parent?
• Dr. Robert Brooks:
www.drrobertbrooks.com
• Dr. Julius Segal’s finding
of “one charismatic adult”
in the lives of resilient people
(see Winning Life's Toughest Battles: Roots of
Human Resilience, 1986)
• Charismatic adult: “a person from whom a child or
adolescent gathers strength”
130
C. Optimal Parental
Functions with Your
Partner
131
The relationship between marital
conflict and child problems
132
The impact of former husbands/wives
and divergent parenting practices
133
The rise of internet pornography
• Every second 372
people are typing
the word "adult" into search engines
• 40 million American people regularly visit porn
sites
• 35% of all internet downloads are related to
pornography
• 25% of all search engine queries are related to
pornography, or about 68 million search queries a
day 134
AM: $150 million in revenues in 2014
135
The Madonna-Whore Complex
136
Teen: “You’re a fucking whore and a bitch! Go ahead, say
something now.”
Parent: “You must be trying to tell me something.”
Teen: “Yeah, that you’re a bitch and you always have been.
Why do you think I am so depressed – it’s because
you’re a fuck up.”
Parent: “I know I’ve made mistakes and they have hurt you,
but I really love you even though you see me as a fuck-
up.”
Teen: “That’s not love!”
Parent: “What isn’t love?”
Teen: “What you did to Daddy.”
Parent: “Tell me what you think I did.”
Part V: Introduction to the Coding
Manual
138
Identifying the characteristic
transactions and misattunements of
your specific family dynamics should
be a major focus of family therapy
and parent guidance work
139
John Gottman
140
9 positive codes
1.Validating/affirming/empathizing
2.Paraphrasing/re-stating/summarizing
3.Inquiring/clarifying
4.Promoting a “rally”
5.Avoiding induction
6.Allowing brief silences/not interrupting
7.Being process-based
8.Collaborating/aligning
9.Recognizing/complimenting
141
9 negative codes
1.Judging/criticizing
2.Assuming/evidencing a negative attribution of
your child
3.Identifying with your child
4.Lecturing/moralizing/giving advice
5.Interrupting
6.Discouraging
7.Guilt inducing
8.Catastrophizing/over-reacting
9.Being overprotective/enmeshed
142
What are the characteristic sequential
chains of positive and negative codes of
your parent-child interactions?
143
The End!
144
James Tobin, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist PSY 22074
220 Newport Center Drive, Suite 1
Newport Beach, CA 92660
949-338-4388
Email: jt@jamestobinphd.com
Web: www.jamestobinphd.com

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The Child’s Psychological Use of the Parent: A Workshop

  • 1. The Child’s Psychological Use of the Parent: A Workshop James Tobin, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist, PSY 22074 220 Newport Center Drive, Suite 1 Newport Beach, CA 92660 949-338-4388 www.jamestobinphd.com
  • 2. Outline for Today’s Workshop • Part I: Transcript of Samantha and Her Parents • Part II: Parenting in a “Perfect Storm” • Part III: The Universal Dilemma of Human Development Lunch Break • Part IV: Optimal Parental Functions • Part V: Introduction to the Coding Manual 2
  • 3. Part I:Transcript of Samantha and Her Parents in Therapy 3
  • 4. Part II: Parenting in a Perfect Storm 4
  • 5. Brain development continues into the mid-30s During adolescence, the child’s brain is unevenly developed and is not necessarily capable of the tasks parents believe should be occurring (planning, cause-effect analysis, learning, regret). 5
  • 6. Brain development continues into the mid-30s Parents’ “construction” of their child often does not take into account gaps in the child’s brain development (leading to “attribution error”). 6
  • 7. The rise of inadequately-assessed risk-taking behavior 7
  • 8. Daniel Romer’s compelling article: “Adolescent Risk Taking, Impulsivity, and Brain Development: Implications for Prevention,” 2010, Developmental Psychobiology, 52, 263- 276. 8
  • 9. Risk-taking ... researchers from different disciplines have proposed two-processes of brain maturation that predispose the adolescent to risk taking and impulsivity. One process that emerges early in adolescence is driven by frontostriatal reward circuits involving the ventral striatum (e.g., the nucleus accumbens) (Casey, Getz, & Galvay, 2008; Chambers, Taylor, & Potenza, 2003;Galvan, Hare, Parra, Penn, Voss, Glover, et al., 2006). These circuits mature relatively early (Fuster, 2002) and encourage the adolescent to venture away from the family and toward increasingly novel and adult-like activities (Spear, 2007). Not surprisingly, many of these activities are fraught with a certain amount of risk (e.g., driving, sex). 9
  • 10. Risk-taking At the same time that the adolescent is engaging in novel and risky activities, it is argued that the PFC has not yet matured to the point where risks can be adequately assessed and control over risk taking can be sufficiently exerted to avoid unhealthy outcomes. In particular, the PFC and its connections with other brain regions are thought to be structurally inadequate to provide the control that is optimal for adolescent behavior. This maturational gap in development of PFC- based control relative to more advanced motivational circuitry is said to result in an inevitable period of risk for adolescents (Casey et al., 2008; Nelson, Bloom, Cameron, Amaral, Dahl, & Pine, 2002; Steinberg, 2008). Furthermore, it is suggested that interventions to reduce this period of vulnerability will inevitably have very limited effectiveness (see Steinberg, this issue). 10
  • 11. 11
  • 12. The impact of social media 12
  • 13. The CNN Special Report “Being13: Inside the Secret World of Teens” 13
  • 14. Being13: Inside the Secret World of Teens • Approximately 200 eighth graders at eight different schools in six states across the country allowed their social media feeds to be studied by child development experts who partnered with CNN. • This is the first large scale study to analyze what kids actually say to each other on social media and why it matters so deeply to them. • 150,000 social media posts were collected over a six- month period. 14
  • 15. • The main finding: Teens are generally very anxious and hyper- aware of what's occurring online; this is largely due to a need to monitor their own popularity status, and to defend themselves against those who challenge it. 15 Being13: Inside the Secret World of Teens
  • 16. Being13: Inside the Secret World of Teens • 61% of teens said they wanted to see if their online posts are getting likes and comments. • 36% of teens said they wanted to see if their friends are doing things without them. • 21% of teens said they wanted to make sure no one was saying mean things about them. 16
  • 17. "This is an age group that has a lot of anxiety about how they fit in, what they rank, what their peer-status is. There is fear in putting yourself out there on social media and they hope for lots of likes and comments and affirmations but there is always the chance that someone could say something mean,” a researcher stated. 17 Being13: Inside the Secret World of Teens
  • 18. The sexualization of children 18
  • 19. Fred Kaeser: “The Super-Sexualization of Children: Time to Take Notice” (Psychology Today Blog Post, September 23, 2011) 19
  • 20. Fred Kaeser If you think about it the average child in the United States today has countless opportunities for exposure to sexualized messages every day. Television, music, billboards, print media, Internet, cellphones and communication devices, cable, movies, and of course interaction with peers and adults, offer children numerous possibilities where they can encounter sexual messages of all sorts. 20
  • 21. Fred Kaeser In some homes kids are only a click away from seeing sexual intercourse in all its possible permutations, everything from your run-of- the-mill sexual intercourse to some pretty weird and disturbing sexual acts. Others still are being exposed to actual sexual behavior in their daily lives that gets played out by the adults and older siblings around them. 21
  • 22. Fred Kaeser Irrespective of a child's particular situation, you can bet that children are being exposed to numerous sexual messages every day of their lives. In fact, by the time a child reaches puberty, she or he has likely been exposed to thousands if not tens of thousands of sexualized messages. Think about that for a moment--constant exposure to sexualized messages, day in and day out, at lightning speed from nearly every direction, for their entire childhood. 22
  • 23. Fred Kaeser We are creating a generation of super-sexualized children. A significant number of children are actually demonstrating sexual interest and/or sexual behavior at earlier ages than ever before in our society. Kids are being exposed to sexual matters that were previously only in the purview of adults and the greater the exposure the greater the consequences can be. When parents fail to counter and buffer the plethora of sexual stimuli that confront children, they are left to their own devices to manage what they experience. 23
  • 24. Fred Kaeser Unfortunately, many will be confused and have difficulty making sense of and putting into proper perspective what they are exposed to. Some will actually try to act out or mimic what they have been exposed to. Others, who may be developing a bullying persona, will begin to incorporate sexual behavior into their bullying behavior and engage in hurtful or intrusive sexual behavior towards other children. 24
  • 25. Fred Kaeser Frankly, I am alarmed over the number of five, six, seven, and eight year old children that molest other children (I have NEVER received so many phone calls from school staff about this problem as I have the past ten to fifteen years). The biggest impact however that the super- sexualization of children can have is its overall looming effect on the day-to-day existence of kids. Sexuality becomes much more of a player than it should, irrespective of the child's age. 25
  • 26. "So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualization of Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids“ by Diane E. Levin and Jean Kilbourne 26
  • 27. The rise of pornography viewing by teenagers • Pornography viewing by teens disorients their views of romance and sexuality. • A significant relationship exists among teens between frequent pornography use and feelings of loneliness, and between pornography use and major depression. 27
  • 28. The Millennial Generation Millennials (also known as Generation Y) are the demographic cohort following Generation X. Most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s to designate Generation Y. 28
  • 29. The Peter Pan Generation American sociologist Kathleen Shaputis labeled Millennials as the Boomerang Generation or Peter Pan Generation: rites of passage into adulthood are delayed for longer periods than most generations before them. There is a prominent trend among the Millennials of living with their parents for longer periods than previous generations. 29
  • 30. Research indicates that on a variety of psychological, emotional and cognitive variables, children today are less mature than children of the same age in previous generations. 30
  • 31. The developmental timeline of human life is changing .... with a delayed/prolonged transition into adulthood • Before: childhood, adolescence (13 to 19), young adulthood (20 to 25), adulthood (25 to 64), retirement/elderly (64+) • Now: childhood, biological adolescence (13 to 17), psychological adolescence (18 to 22), emerging adulthood (23 to 33), young adulthood (34 to 39/40), adulthood (41 to 70), retirement/elderly (70+) 31
  • 32. In certain cultures, rituals demarcate the child’s entrance into adulthood (the transition is unequivocal and final) 32
  • 33. In our culture ... 33
  • 35. Are we creating a society of adult- children? 35
  • 36. Are we creating a society of adult- children? According to Kimberly Palmer, "High housing prices, the rising cost of higher education, and the relative affluence of the older generation are among the factors driving the trend.” A 2013 joint study by sociologists at the University of Virginia and Harvard University found that the likelihood of marriage is actually diminishing among certain subgroups of children. 36
  • 37. Resistance toward becoming an adult or something else? Larry Nelson, a researcher in a 2012 study at Brigham Young University study, noted that "In prior generations, you get married and you start a career and you do that immediately. What young people today are seeing is that this approach has led to divorces, to people unhappy with their careers … The majority want to get married […] they just want to do it right the first time, the same thing with their careers." 37
  • 38. The “vampire child” (Failure to Launch Syndrome) 38
  • 39. Instead of delaying autonomy, there are also attempts to propel it way too quickly 39
  • 40. The social brain (“Interpersonal Neurobiology”) 40
  • 41. The work of Daniel J. Siegel • The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience (New York: Guilford Press, 1999) • Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body and Brain (New York: WW Norton & Company, 2003). Co-edited with Marion Solomon. • Forward to Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy by Kekuni Minton, Pat Ogden, and Clare Pain (New York: WW Norton & Company, 2006) • The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (New York: WW Norton & Company, 2007) • The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice (New York: WW Norton & Company, 2009). Co-edited with Diana Fosha and Marion F. Solomon. 41
  • 42. The work of Daniel J. Siegel • The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (New York: WW Norton & Company, 2010) • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation (New York: Bantam, 2010) • The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive (New York: Delacorte Press, 2011). Co-author with Tina Payne Bryson. • The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (New York: Guilford Press, 2012). 42
  • 43. The work of Daniel J. Siegel • Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012) • Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain (New York: Penguin Putnam, 2013) • Parenting From the Inside Out: How A Deeper Self- Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive (New York: Tarcher, 2004). Co-author with Mary Hartzel. • No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (New York: Bantam, 2014). Co-author with Tina Payne Bryson. 43
  • 46. The child’s brain development (and psychological and emotional maturity) depend on the quality of relational experience 46
  • 49. With heightened pruning (by a lack of quality relational experience), identity development and internal motivation will be stalled ... this is the silent epidemic of child “self-estrangement” 49
  • 50. Self-estrangement Exaggerated claims of identity and/or a total withdrawal from identity (I am an empty shell of a person; I feel nothing; I want nothing) – this leads to the habitual need to find an external way to be stimulated/to feel anything 50
  • 51. Most American families are steeped in conflict 51
  • 52. Given all of these factors, parents need a life preserver 52
  • 53. Parenting without a theory of parenting There is no roadmap for how to parent. Parents often parent the way they were parented or seek to parent in ways that are opposite of how they were parented. Today you will learn a theory of parenting that focuses on the parent’s need to support the child’s brain development through quality relational experience. 53
  • 54. Part III: The Universal Dilemma of Human Development 54
  • 55. A cruel joke played on us by our “creator”? 55
  • 57. In early human life, there are actually 2 “two’s becoming one’s” 57
  • 60. 4 stages of union/separation • Symbiosis (child aged 0 to 6 months) • Separation (6 months to 2 years) • Differentiation (2 years to 6 years) • Individuation (6+ years) Every parent-child pair experiences some degree of difficulty at one or multiple points along this 4- stage process ... the term “personality” refers to the psychological defenses a child uses to get through the challenges of these stages 60
  • 62. Symbiosis (“two becoming one”) • Mother exists for the child • If all goes well, primary narcissism is laid down at the foundation of the child’s identity • The child’s strategy of attachment becomes habitual 62
  • 63. It is during Symbiosis that the child’s psychological separation from the parent actually begins (i.e., the child accommodates to the primary caretaker – this is the first major defense) 63
  • 64. In the 6th or 7th month of life, separation is physically manifested 64
  • 65. “Going on Being”: the child’s innate drives of exploration and discovery 65
  • 66. The child’s “going on being” is inevitably interrupted (the second major defense) 66
  • 67. By age 6, the child’s psychological defenses (to accommodate and cope with “going on being” interruptions) split the child’s identity into 3 components 67
  • 68. The False Self ..... the compromised, accommodating part of the personality 68
  • 69. The True Self ....the non-compromised authentic part of the personality 69
  • 70. The Unknown Self .... the part of the true self that was not given an opportunity to develop (“to be”) and expand. 70
  • 71. What does this all mean for the parent and adolescent? .... 2 main take-aways 71
  • 72. (#1) The adolescent is disproportionately part- true, part-false, and part-unknown. If separation and individuation are promoted in the family appropriately (not too slowly/not too quickly), the teen will be more “true,” less “false,” and more highly invested in exploring his/her “unknown.” 72
  • 73. (#2) At any moment in the parent-child relationship, the parent never knows at what level of union/separation the child is at nor vice versa ... • Symbiosis (child aged 0 to 6 months) • Separation (6 months to 2 years) • Differentiation (2 years to 6 years) • Individuation (6+ years) ** THIS IS THE ISSUE OF MISATTUNEMENT** 73
  • 74. Most romantic relationship difficulties in adulthood are nothing more than an attempt to relive unresolved relational conflicts with one’s parents (MISATTUNEMENTS), at whatever level of union/separation they occurred, with one’s partner, and finally, to no longer accommodate! 74
  • 75. All adult romantic relationships are pre- determined 75
  • 76. All adult romantic relationships are pre-determined You don’t marry your mother or father; rather, you recruit a person to unwittingly become an actor in the play you direct in which: (1) your partner is cast as your parent who constricts you and misattunes to you, and ... (2) you are your former child self who can finally subvert the parent in order to “be.” 76
  • 77. 77
  • 78. Part IV: Optimal Parental Functions 78
  • 80. There is great ambivalence about the child’s identity development and imminent separation and autonomy This is universally resisted, consciously and/or unconsciously, by both parent and child, in all families! I 80
  • 81. Parents often do not realize the intensity of their child’s ambivalence about growing up 81
  • 82. At any moment ... • Symbiosis (child aged 0 to 6 months) • Separation (6 months to 2 years) • Differentiation (2 years to 6 years) • Individuation (6+ years) 82
  • 83. Example of the child’s resistance to “becoming a two” 83
  • 84. Example of the parent’s resistance to “becoming a two” 84
  • 85. As childhood transitions into adolescence, self-recognition intensifies • Who I am or might be = separation/aloneness 85
  • 86. The false, true, and unknown selves collide, overlap and conflict 86
  • 87. Self-recognition “If I look at myself and my feelings closely, and begin to recognize who I am, I will realize I am ... different, strange, unique, unlikable, fat, ugly, weird, etc. etc. ...... AND .... I will be alone (others won’t like me/I won’t like me) ... AND ... I will die.” 87
  • 88. At the same time, every parent has difficulty tolerating who his/her child is becoming 88
  • 89. The one way out of all these problems? All of these tensions put the teen and the parent in a state of internal difficulty/crisis that cannot be tolerated. There is an old adage: “All the important arguments are with yourself.” Humans usually do not abide by this: instead, they create drama with others to distract from their own internal dramas.******* 89
  • 90. In which scene are the child’s emotional capacities being developed? A B 90
  • 91. Scene A ... this is a TRANSACTION and it capitalizes on the close ties (union) between parent and child to delay the child’s brain development (PFC) and emotional autonomy 91
  • 92. Scene B ... this is WITNESSING and it promotes the child’s interiority 92
  • 93. Interiority An interior space in your child’s mind, an organized structure for thinking, feeling, and relating to self and others. This space is created solely through well-boundaried interpersonal relatedness. 93
  • 94. The child’s brain development (and psychological and emotional maturity) depend on quality relational experience 94
  • 95. Scaffolding Your parental function is to scaffold your child’s current union/separation stage so that it moves slightly toward the next level and does not regress back to previous levels. 95
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  • 97. There are 10 types of transactions: these are the family system’s best (unconscious) method for hindering the child’s developing autonomy. 97
  • 98. Optimal Parental Functions A. With your child B. With yourself C. With your partner 98
  • 99. A. Optimal Parental Functions with Your Child 99
  • 100. Your first and most important task: avoid transactions (the ones either you or your child attempt) 100
  • 106. 6. “The Narcissistic Umbilical Cord” 106
  • 107. 7. The False Self 107
  • 108. 8. Self-sabotage and the “identified patient” 108
  • 111. Summary • These 10 unconscious transactional patterns in families capitalize on the primal bond between parent and child (the long history of “two becoming one”) to resist what needs to occur (“one becoming two”). • These unconscious transactions are interpersonal boundary violations. 111
  • 112. There is a large catalogue of unconscious transactions in families (that violate interpersonal boundaries and resist “one becoming two”) These transactions are reinforced by misattunements Identifying the characteristic transactions and misattunements of your specific family dynamics should be a major focus of family therapy and parent guidance work 112
  • 113. Interpersonal boundary violations Interpersonal boundary violations between parent and child leave the child with poor internal boundaries: “I can’t say ‘No!’ to myself .... my thoughts, desires, cravings, tendencies, impulses, etc.” 113
  • 114. “The addictive sentiment” This is the “addictive sentiment,” setting the stage for all future dependencies including substance and process addictions as well as emotional/romantic co-dependence and love addiction. Relational boundary diffusion and internal boundary diffusion usually co-exist, feeding off of each other and making it almost impossible to be a boundaried person – with self or with others! This translates into a proneness for transactions not witnessing. 114
  • 115. For the parent, witnessing, not transacting, promotes the child’s capacity to be alone and his/her growth and autonomy 115
  • 116. “The capacity to be alone” “I wish to make an examination of the capacity of the individual to be alone, acting on the assumption that this capacity is one of the most important signs of maturing in emotional development ... It would seem to me that a discussion of the positive aspects of the capacity to be alone is overdue” (D.W. Winnicott, 1958). 116
  • 117. Witnessing as “Relational Dialysis” 117
  • 118. Witnessing as Relational Dialysis You accept and absorb your child’s “toxic” states and refine them by having these states: (1) go “into” you (listen, inquire, contain), and (2) return them back to your child in a more palatable/purified form (your child’s experience is not judged nor devalued, but emphatically validated and contextualized). 118
  • 119. Getting hydrocarbons from crude oil 119
  • 120. Transacting vs. Witnessing In transacting, material from the child binds to the parent (causing an interpersonal struggle) In witnessing/relational dialysis, material from the child passes through the parent and returns to the child in an altered form for further examination (causing an intrapersonal struggle) 120
  • 121. Relational dialysis is not only a communication strategy, but an attitudinal presence that implies a meta-message to the child: (1) “I am separate from you” (2) “You are struggling due to your natural, ‘normal’ and understandable resistances to maturity, independence/autonomy, and aloneness” (3) “If I transact with you, I will hurt you by inhibiting your emotional development ... so I will witness instead” 121
  • 122. The punch line As a parent, you want to avoid transactions with your child and attempt to correct misattunements ... .... so that you can relate to your child as a separate being in the role of witness 122
  • 123. B. Optimal Parental Functions with Yourself 123
  • 124. Are you under- or over-invested in your child’s emerging identity? 124
  • 125. Are you identified with or counter- identified with your own parents in how you parent? 125
  • 126. Are you overly-identified with your child? • Are you activated more by what you see in your child that reminds you of you? ... These regions of similarity tend to be responsible for most of a parent’s parenting activity • Are you activated more by what you see in your child that is foreign to you/does not remind you of you? ... These regions of dissimilarity are what parents usually need to devote more of their attention to 126
  • 127. Are you a person (not a parent) who can be idealized by your child? 127
  • 128. “Triumphs of Experience” by George Valliant (Amazon) • In 1938, Harvard University began following 268 male undergraduate students and kicked off the longest-running longitudinal study of human development in history. • The study’s goal was to determine as best as possible what factors contribute most strongly to human flourishing. 128
  • 129. “Triumph of Experience” • Vaillant raises a number of factors more often than others, but the one he refers to most often is the powerful correlation between the warmth of a man’s relationships and his health and happiness in later years. 129
  • 130. Are you a “charismatic” parent? • Dr. Robert Brooks: www.drrobertbrooks.com • Dr. Julius Segal’s finding of “one charismatic adult” in the lives of resilient people (see Winning Life's Toughest Battles: Roots of Human Resilience, 1986) • Charismatic adult: “a person from whom a child or adolescent gathers strength” 130
  • 131. C. Optimal Parental Functions with Your Partner 131
  • 132. The relationship between marital conflict and child problems 132
  • 133. The impact of former husbands/wives and divergent parenting practices 133
  • 134. The rise of internet pornography • Every second 372 people are typing the word "adult" into search engines • 40 million American people regularly visit porn sites • 35% of all internet downloads are related to pornography • 25% of all search engine queries are related to pornography, or about 68 million search queries a day 134
  • 135. AM: $150 million in revenues in 2014 135
  • 137. Teen: “You’re a fucking whore and a bitch! Go ahead, say something now.” Parent: “You must be trying to tell me something.” Teen: “Yeah, that you’re a bitch and you always have been. Why do you think I am so depressed – it’s because you’re a fuck up.” Parent: “I know I’ve made mistakes and they have hurt you, but I really love you even though you see me as a fuck- up.” Teen: “That’s not love!” Parent: “What isn’t love?” Teen: “What you did to Daddy.” Parent: “Tell me what you think I did.”
  • 138. Part V: Introduction to the Coding Manual 138
  • 139. Identifying the characteristic transactions and misattunements of your specific family dynamics should be a major focus of family therapy and parent guidance work 139
  • 141. 9 positive codes 1.Validating/affirming/empathizing 2.Paraphrasing/re-stating/summarizing 3.Inquiring/clarifying 4.Promoting a “rally” 5.Avoiding induction 6.Allowing brief silences/not interrupting 7.Being process-based 8.Collaborating/aligning 9.Recognizing/complimenting 141
  • 142. 9 negative codes 1.Judging/criticizing 2.Assuming/evidencing a negative attribution of your child 3.Identifying with your child 4.Lecturing/moralizing/giving advice 5.Interrupting 6.Discouraging 7.Guilt inducing 8.Catastrophizing/over-reacting 9.Being overprotective/enmeshed 142
  • 143. What are the characteristic sequential chains of positive and negative codes of your parent-child interactions? 143
  • 145. James Tobin, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist PSY 22074 220 Newport Center Drive, Suite 1 Newport Beach, CA 92660 949-338-4388 Email: jt@jamestobinphd.com Web: www.jamestobinphd.com